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Students will create a host-guest style podcast, 2-3 minutes in duration. Household members will be interviewed, and students will complete the project using Soundtrap.

Students will choose a sample from any source, and will use material from that sample to create a 1:30-2:00 minute song. Students may add one track of additional audio; all other material for the song will come from the sample. A copy of the raw sample must be submitted with the completed project

Students will record a live audio track as part of a song they compose. Students will use Pro Tools to mix and master the audio files.

Students will use common rhythms and simple melodic gestures to compose a 8-16 measure melody for their instrument. Students will also turn in a self reflection describing the cognitive process they used in developing their composition.

Students will demonstrate skill in Pro Tools mixing a multi-track studio session. The project will include the use of a master fader, auxiliary sends, the Audio Suite, and effects like delay, EQ, compression, and reverb.

Students will use Pro Tools to craft the music and dialogue for a documentary. Students will import video, record a voiceover track, and insert music to complete this project.

Students will record virtual instrument tracks in Pro Tools to create a song. A minimum of four instrument tracks should be armed with different sounds for each track. The song should be between 1 minute and 1:30 in duration.

Students will choose audio loops from the Big Fish Library (provided), and will edit them to create a 2-minute-long song. Students will use the TCE tool, pitch correction, and elastic analysis to edit their loops in Pro Tools.

Students will use audio tracks provided by the instructor and will use Pro Tools to make any one of the tracks ready for radio play. Students will use EQ, reverb, compression, and fade.

Students will use vocal tracks provided by the instructor and will both combine and edit these spoken tracks to a duration of 60 seconds using basic audio editing techniques in Pro Tools.

Students will use audio tracks provided by the instructor and will increase the duration of the song to three minutes using basic audio editing techniques in Pro Tools.

Music performance rubric

Music critique and writing grading rubric

Choose 4 or more loops to make a song. Your song should be a minimum of 8 measures in duration and each loop should be a different instrument (for example, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet). Each instrument or sound should be assigned to its own track. Use at least one instance of "fade in" and at least one instance of "fade out".

Create a mash-up using 2 or more different songs; the songs may be from any genre of music. Tempos and keys must match when you combine sections of the two songs. Your mash-up should be a minimum of 1 minute in duration.

Using a MIDI file you downloaded, create a new song by keeping only 1-2 tracks of the original and then adding at least 2 others. The song's duration stays the same. Be certain to match tempo when you add new material. Original material can be edited as necessary.

Compose an ambient piece which is a minimum or 3' in duration. Use at least 6 of the loops you selected in 1-day #3 (music and emotion), and any other musical material which is appropriate to your emotions. Select 10 or more images which represent your emotions, and combine the images with your music using WeVideo.

Compose a song using the three loops given to the entire class. The song should be a minimum of a minute in duration and should be in AB form with a solo break in between the two sections. All three loops must be used. The solo break must be one of the three loops. Any other material may be added (loops, recorded music, effects, etc). Intro and outro are optional. The A and B sections must be the same duration, the solo break may be any duration.

Edit a one minute (or longer) speech to exactly 30 seconds. Your speech can be material you record or something you download. Even after removing, editing, or altering words and phrases, the result should sound like regular human speech, without effects or odd clipped words or unnatural pauses. You may choose to produce something serious in nature or something with strange word order and nonsense sentences, up to you!